Picket Fences Memorable Quotes & Sayings

I'm fully aware that some of the stuff I write is going to offend people or p*ss them off. They should be fully aware that I don't really care. — Briana Blair

The husbandman deals with land; physicians and trainers with the body; the wise man with his own Mind. — Epictetus

To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look. — Christopher Walken

Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading
once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive
is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good. — Alberto Manguel

I'm fully aware that every time I do anything, good or bad, somebody's watching. — Chauncey Billups

For the first time I was beginning to discern a God whom I actually wanted to live for. I was beginning to discover the motivation of Paul when he proclaimed, "Christ's love compels us" (2 Cor. 5: 14). All my life I'd tried to be good to avoid hell, or the ugly-stick flogging, or my stepmother's beatings with a two-by-four. But while most people would undoubtedly be better at behaving well with these frightful motivations than I ever was, no one could ever be transformed by these sorts of motivations. Threatening motivations address behavior, but they can never transform our identity. They motivate people to change as a means of protecting themselves, but for this reason they can never move us beyond ourselves to become someone fundamentally different from who we currently are. And threatening motivations can certainly never transform us into people with an other-oriented, self-sacrificial, loving character. Only a motivation that is anchored in love can do this. — Gregory A. Boyd

Time is elastic. It stretches to accommodate what we need or want to do with it. — Laura Vanderkam

All our knowledge is symbolic. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. — Albrecht Durer

I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it. — Peter Jurasik

When they came to you for your line, you had to be ready and you had to get it in one. — June Foray

If you're thinking of flying, Sparrow, know that I will catch you. There is no escape. Fly until your wings fall off, until there's no more sky, but I will find you. I will always find you. — Leighton Del Mia

What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Do not be afraid of seeming different and being criticized for what might seem to be losing or out of fashion; your peers but adults too, especially those who seem more distant from the mindset and values of the Gospel, are crying out to see someone who dares to live according to the fullness of humanity revealed by Jesus Christ. — Pope Benedict XVI

You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what you mean. You enjoy it. — Joseph Campbell